This overdue investigation of George Groszs (1893-1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and collages offers a reassessment of the celebrated German Expressionist during his years in Berlin'from his earliest artistic ...

Yo Shimada is an architect based in Kobe, Kansai region of Japan. This monograph features his resourceful 22 houses-from House in Rokko to House in Shoji-in about last ten years ...

The publication rethinks climate control - a key concern of the discipline of architecture - through the lens of city climate phenomena over the course of the 20th century. Based ...

Textile industries were one of the driving forces of the urbanisation process in medieval Northwest Europe, and nowhere was their impact so profound as in Flanders, where almost all larger ...

Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance ...

The Ashcan School and The Eight are now recognised as Americas first modern art movement: rejecting their academic training and the practices of the National Academy of Design, they forged ...

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trio's coming together as the Societe des trois occurred during the ...

This beautifully illustrated new volume on the Surrealist movement uncovers the influence magic, myth and the occult had on its development. Like no other 20th-century movement, Surrealism was keenly inspired ...

How can you turn dry statistics into attractive and informative graphs? How can you present complex data sets in an easily understandable way? How can you create narrative diagrams from ...

Un volume riccamente illustrato, aggiornato alle realizzazioni più recenti, su tutta l'opera di Renzo Piano e del suo studio (RPBW). Piano (nato a Genova nel 1937) è tra più celebri ...

OAB draws on the collaborative nature of the Carlos Ferrater previous studio, incorporating new ways of understanding the contributions of each team member to generate richer and more varied, prepared ...

Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising ...

La Indeterminación de la Planta es el primer número de la serie GENEROSIDAD, dedicada al diseño de la vivienda colectiva. Tras la serie Densidad, que alertaba sobre la importancia de ...

Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed ...

A city that has existed for over 2,000 years, Verona has a wealth of historic architecture: from Ancient Roman masterworks such as the Arena, through seventeenth-century neoclassical gems like the ...

"Antiguo boxeador y arquitecto autodidacta, Tadao Ando (Osaka, Japón, 1941) está considerado como uno de los maestros de la arquitectura contemporánea. Monumental, abstracta y esencial, su extensa obra -ha construido ...

Throughout 5,000 years the visual plot has been shown as the systematic alphabet that Mediterranean cultures have used to write multiple architectural accounts of a sacred and ceremonial nature. We ...

Giuseppe Pizzigoni, architect of classical and postwar modernism in northern Italy, owes his reputation to his connections with the Novecento movement, his independence from fascism, and his interest in innovative ...

Architecture and freehand drawing are inextricably linked. Even in the Gothic period, the principle applied: what you can't build, you at least draw. The same applies to the sketches of ...